Re: History of French

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:23:59 +0200

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:21:58 GMT: Nathan Sanders
<nsanders.DIE.SPAM@wso.williams.edu>: in sci.lang:

>Supposing that language ability is primarily controlled by desire to
>learn, as you have suggested: Is it a coincidence that every single
>child on earth has a strong desire to learn and successfully becomes a
>native speaker with little active effort (no sitting at a desk reading
>pages of grammar rules, for example), but that nearly all L2 learners
>lack the desire to achieve the same result, even with decades of
>active studying?

No, there must be reasons for that. But that's not the question. The
question is: is 'critical period' the most important reason? Or even
an important reason? And that to me seems difficult to prove. I
haven't seen anything convincing in this thread. And Genie doesn't
prove nothing concerning this. 

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Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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